From New Directions:

Resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of such authors as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser, the stories in The Country Road are largely set in the Swiss countryside. In these tales, the archaic and the modern collide.

The cleaving of Cynthia Hollandsworth’s and Arthur Baker’s typeface only adds to the dueling quality of this “sans serif with serifs”—which accords nicely with the publisher’s observation of cultural and temporal collisions.

Copyright 1968 by Edward Abbey. A Touchstone Book, published by Simon and Schuster, reprinted by arrangement with the McGraw-Hill Book Company

Illustrations by Peter Parnall. The liner notes don’t specify the cover illustration (which is different from the inner illustrations) but it does look like his other work so I think it's safe to say it's his as well. 

First published in the US by The World Publishing Company, 1960, Cleveland and New York.
48 pp., 11-3/4 x 8-3/4"

Originally published in 1969, this is the new enlarged edition from 1977. Perfect bound, 6.5×9.5 inches, 152 pp.

From the Flickr photostream of Montague Projects.

Jacket.

“This does have a very clever cover design, but I got this for the words, not the pictures. While you probably know him for his furniture and clocks, George Nelson is probably the 20th century’s best writer about design. Engaging, exploratory, humorous, brimming with ideas, and never over anyone’s head, Nelson’s prose is perhaps my greatest point of inspiration in my own work at Dwell. Save for a few references to secretaries and nuclear technology, this and his other collection of essays — Problems of Design — have managed to stand up to the test of time remarkably well. Really highly recommended reading.” — Sam Grawe of Dwell Magazine

“Pentagram has a long association with George Nelson. When Pentagram co-founder Colin Forbes first moved to New York in the late seventies to establish an office there, he shared space with Nelson, and the two discussed the possibility of Nelson joining the Pentagram partnership. The relationship was never made formal, although there are news releases that have survived from the period that refer to Nelson as a Pentagram partner. Forbes designed the jacket for Nelson’s classic 1978 book George Nelson On Design, the first project produced by Pentagram New York.” — Pentagram

Cover.

“Today, I spent some time at a bookshop where I picked up a wonderful copyof the ‘The Triptych of the Three Kings’ by Felix Timmermans — in German. Printed by Insel-Bücherei in 1956 the entire book is set in Linotype Trajanus (1940) which was designed by the American Warren Chappell; an illustrator, as well as book and type designer. What a great find and I don’t think I will come across this kind of treasure ever again.” — Typeaffair